Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

You cannot create employees without first creating employers.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.